“Cookies are just a fundamental part of how the Web works, about as essential as Wi-Fi, HTML, or electricity,” explains Silktide founder, Oliver Emberton. “All cookies do is recognize your computer as ...

Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg calls the effort to determine which cookies should be blocked or allowed a "Kangaroo Cookie Court" that will hurt small Internet publishers.

Your browser is a surprisingly good snitch.

Google just gave itself a win-win with new advertising privacy controls that will affect developers — and, eventually, users and advertisers. The ability to better control who's tracking you to sell ...

A wide swath of the ‘Net’s top websites, including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd, were sued in federal court Friday on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by ...

Make no mistake: You’re being tracked. Want to be shocked? Take a look at the secret map in your smartphone that watches your every move. Tap or click here to see the map tracking you and wipe it ...